The body of the affair is a ability play amid the NHL

The body of the affair is a ability play amid the NHL, NHLPA and the All-embracing Olympic Committee. The alliance capital the IOC to accomplish concessions, which it didn't. The NHLPA capital the abandon to NHL Coins get it done. This could be acclimated as a acceding dent amid the abutment and the alliance if the accepted aggregate acceding acceding expires afterwards the 2021-22 season.

Each ancillary has an opt-out article in 2019, acceptation the accord would expire in 2020. If asked endure weekend how abundant of an accent the Olympic affair would be during the next CBA negotiations, Fehr said: "It's absurd to say at this point. One would like to believe, if we could anytime get a abiding acceding on all-embracing [games], we'd acquisition a way to abode it."

Four agencies approved to assortment it out -- the NHL, the NHLPA, the IOC and the All-embracing Ice Hockey Federation -- with no luck. The IOC has ahead adjourned players' biking and allowance (which, in 2014, amounted to $14 million). If the IOC took that off the table, the IIHF stepped in and offered to awning $10 million. It was a nice gesture, but it didn't boldness all of the issues, including arresting the NHL division for three weeks. The IOC issued a account in April adage it "feels actual apologetic for the athletes."